Mt.Monadnock is the second most climbed mountain in the world.
The Mrs and I climbed it many years ago. We took a nice trail from the west. When we got to the summit it was packed with teens with boom boxes, etc. We didn’t know there was a much shorter trail from a parking lot closer to the summit.
Another time we went up North Pack, a much lower mountain near Monadnock. On the way down there was a group of teens struggling to carry a large cooler up the hill. They weren’t making much progress. I wonder what the cooler contained...LOL.
Heading to southern Vermont, from Boston, I used to take Route 2 to Route 12, which passed through Winchendon and Fitzwilliam, N.H. on the way to Keene, then a short trip on Route 9 to the Connecticut River
I had a fair amount of experience in NH’s White Mountains in the winter, when I was not much older than these guys, and if you were not careful, they could be deadly. But Monadnock is in southwestern NH, and it’s only 3,165 feet high. You have to really go out of your way to screw up there.